____/ Kier on Friday 28 September 2007 09:43 : \____
> On Fri, 28 Sep 2007 09:21:54 +0100, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>
>> ____/ Kier on Friday 28 September 2007 08:55 : \____
>>
>>> On Fri, 28 Sep 2007 01:16:38 +0100, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>>
>>>> ____/ Peter Köhlmann on Thursday 27 September 2007 23:34 : \____
>>>>
>>>>> Kier wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Fri, 28 Sep 2007 00:06:04 +0200, Peter Köhlmann wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Killing Microsoft's Clippy with open source
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>>>>>> | Michael Meeks has a tough job. Anyone who's struggled with making
>>>>>>>> | documents not created in the Word interface with Microsoft Office
>>>>>>>> | should be able to sympathise.
>>>>>>>> `----
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,1000000121,39289664,00.htm?r=3
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> So where exactly did you find that he is a "Another OOXML Embracer"?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Not in this article, certianly.
>>>>>
>>>>> Exactly. Roy has been making stuff up.
>>>>> He is like Mark Kent: Mindlessly hating Novell. Because Novell acted
>>>>> different than the GPL3-mob wanted them to do
>>>>>
>>>>>> Good interview, BTW.
>>>>>
>>>>> Yes, it is. It takes quite a lot of mindless hatred to read idiocy
>>>>> like "Another OOXML Embracer" into it
>>>>>
>>>>> Roy, whatever you did smoke: Leave it to cretins like DFS or billwg.
>>>>> It is bad for linux when "advocates" (you *do* advocacy, do you?) are
>>>>> outright lying and misrepresenting what people actually say.
>>>>
>>>> From someone who knows that stuff (not me):
>>>>
>>>> "And now that I remember well, the guy who wrote the bootstrap is Michael
>>>> Meeks, Novell employee, a contributor to the OpenOffice project (not
>>>> entirely sure if he only contributes to the Novell branch, or to the
>>>> regular OpenOffice branch as well), old contributor of Gnumeric, close
>>>> friend of Miguel."
>>>>
>>>> http://boycottnovell.com/2007/09/05/silverlight-mono-novell/#comment-1949
>>>
>>> So what? Doesn't prove your point one iota.
>>
>> There was an interview before that (the one which I refer to in the reply to
>> Stephane. Some of Novell staff obediently follows a strategy that is self
>> destructive, IMHO.
>
> Your opinion is certainly noted. That doesn't make it fact, nor does it
> prove what you say about Michael Meeks.
True. It is only my opinion.
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